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The T1 light tank was a United States Army light tank of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was only built in prototype form. The tank was an Army design built by James Cunningham, Son and Company. Introduced in 1927, it was developed up through 1932 as a series of modified versions (T1E1, T1E2, T1E3, T1E4, T1E5, and T1E6).
Christie M1931. The Christie M1931, known as the Combat Car, T1 in US Cavalry use and Medium Tank, Convertible, T3 in Infantry branch, was a wheel-to-track tank designed by J. Walter Christie for the United States Army using Christie's ideas of an aero-engine and the novel Christie suspension to give high mobility.
James Cunningham, Son and Company developed the M1 Armored Car (T24), tested by the Ordnance Department in 1931. The company also manufactured the prototype T1 Light Tank. The company made high-speed, very-long-life crossbar switches with physically small mechanical parts which permitted faster operation than telephone-type crossbar switches.
range. 161 km (100 mi) on roads. Maximum speed. 72 km/h (45 mph) on roads. The M1 combat car, officially Light Tank, M1, was a light tank used by the United States Cavalry in the late 1930s [ 2] and developed at the same time as the U.S. Army Infantry Branch 's very similar Light Tank, M2. After the Spanish Civil War, most armies (including the ...
The original name for this article, "T1 Cunningham", appears to be a recent invention which quite likely stems from the popular MMO game World of Tanks, which introduced this tank under that name as a "Tier 1" (starting level) vehicle for players following the game's American tech tree. I can't find any examples of this tank ever being called ...
The MBT-70 (German: KPz 70) was an American– West German joint project to develop a new main battle tank during the 1960s. The MBT-70 was developed by the United States and West Germany in the context of the Cold War, intended to counter the new generation of Warsaw Pact tanks developed by the Soviet Union.
Matilda tanks at Tobruk. Tanks first appeared on the battlefield as a solution to trench warfare. They were large, heavy, slow moving vehicles capable of driving right over the top of enemy trenches; thereby eliminating the need to send soldiers "over the top" only to be blasted to pieces by enemies. The British Army was the first to use them ...
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